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What can I say about 2016 that hasn’t been said by some vacuous feeble-minded jackass who needs a hug from his mommy? Not much, those bastards blabber on at a loose end and don’t know how to shut up.

Ladies and Gentlemen, are you surprised things went funny last year? I mean the CUBS won the world series! John the Apostle wrote about this shit in Revelations, kids. I believe he wrote about it just before the opening of the fourth seal and the granting of one quarter of the earth to Death, who rides a pale horse… Which explains all the dead stars lately. Oof.

Note: The fifth seal has vengeance written all over it and has stuff with people in ‘White Robes.’ Sound Republican enough for you? That occurs January 20th, In Washington D.C.

With all that said, I think the planet will at least last through the year, so therefore I think it makes sense to make some resolutions.

To improve myself.

Ya know, just in case things work out and the planet doesn’t burst into flames.

ON TO THE RESOLUTIONS!

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IN 2017, I HEREBY RESOLVE TO:

Enjoy Life Less: Because we tried enjoying it more last year, and what happened? Donald Fucking Trump. ‘Nuf said.

Spend money foolishly: Who needs fiscal responsibility when there is so much shiny shit that goes beep for no readily apparent reason? There are superhero movies to watch and distract myself from the woes of the real world with, New phones and computers with games that go ping to distract me from the state of the world, and clothes with logos on them that cost insane amounts of money that help to enslave workers in third world countries! Why should I save money? Fuck that shit!

Start a Civil War in the United States: (Note to my friends in the NSA and the FBI and the CIA and the KGB: I’m kidding! Love you guys! Don’t Shoot!) Do you expect me to try and start one in Upper Mongolia? Those yaks are pretty happy over there. We’re the ones with the fat,pissy people who are enjoying life less and buying too much crap for their own good, so why not? I mean the KGB, the CIA, and the NSA are all pushing things in that direction anyway (We’ll end up with MORE power afterwards, so why not fuck everyone so hard they fight back and get rid of OUR enemies and make us stronger? is their view, I’m guessing.)

Plus the name of this blog is Casus Belli which is Latin for Cause of the War

I kind of have to say that shit.

Increase the amount of stress in my life:With the impending knock on the door from the FBI thanks to that last resolution, I’m sure I just handled that one. I like to keep things easy, kids.

But then again, maybe I need to…

Relax:With all the off time I’m going to have this year, all 20 minutes of it, I’m going to need to learn to relax. Or maybe just keep running around like a maniac until I fall down. That sounds pleasant.

Put a Hex on every major team in every major sport on earth: If my team can’t win, then fuck all you people.

Teach an octopus to juggle: I mean c’mon. They’re smart and they have eight fucking arms. Tentacles, arms, six of one, half a dozen of the other. They should be naturals at this crap.

Teach myself to juggle: I mean c’mon. I’ve got six less arms less than an octopus, but I come from the species that came up with this stupid shit, and with that 20 minutes of free time scheduled sometime in July, why not?

Run for Political office: What’s my platform? Fuck you is my platform. Let me show you:

My platform as it relates to lobbyists: Fuck you, Pay me.

Press: Do you plan to Cut Social Security?

Me: Fuck You.

Press: The Chinese are planning on sanctions on the U.S. What will our response be?

Me: Fuck you.

Press: Are you fucking with us?

Me: Fuck you.

That shit works.

Walk into a spider web that no one can see, freak the fuck out, cause strangers to think I am insane and trying to beat up imaginary beasts that are attacking me out of nowhere, have it immortalized on the internet: Because doesn’t that sound like fun?

Hit every wall I come near with a hammer: Walls suck. Fuck walls. I might bring nails with me to make it worse. And plus it sounds like fun and fits the whole make it look like I’m nuts motif I started with that spider web bullshit.

Write quality fiction and sell it: After I teach myself to juggle during those 20 free minutes, I’ll take five of those minutes and write 200,000 words about an octopus who teaches himself to juggle. It can happen. If you’re really high and thinking about it. Badly.

Write something funny: That bullshit I just wrote was supposed to be funny. It wasn’t was it? No? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Ich bin ein arschloch.

Write something coherent: I would but that would simply set a dangerous precedent. Can’t have that.

Cut the shit: Seriously, just cut the shit, OK?

Now that’s the right weapon to cut the shit with.

Drink coffee, walk in circles, mumble incoherently and cackle at my cats for no readily apparent reason:THAT’S more like it!

Impress the boss and my co-workers with my communication skills: Which would involve learning how to talk. Not my strong suit. I type well. Talking is for politicians, supervisors and other self abusive lunatics. I write. It’s more leisurely and I’m more able to make precise points. And I can EDIT. The jokes don’t get any better, not without hiring a professional joke writer. There was more I wanted to communicate there but… oh fuck it.

Don’t Die: Do this one every year. So far, so good.

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Quote of the day: Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It’s as simple as that. The CIA doesn’t kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn’t lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight? ~ George Carlin, Doin’ it Again / Explicit Lyrics, 1990

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Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone—all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

Albert Camus

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It’s about 20 minutes after 11 pm eastern time here on Staten Island as I write this.

I’ve written and deleted this particular section at least 3 times now. I’ve written about Adam Curry. I’ve written about conservatism. I’ve written about the President. And deleted it all.

Not that it wasn’t good, it was up to the standard that I normally write to, but it just didn’t seem to fit. It just didn’t feel right.

Not that it matters, not today.

I’m hanging out with my wife, and I am happy with that.

I did a good days work and got an honest days pay for it, and I am happy with that.

I ran as hard as I could today, broke a severe sweat doing it, and I am happy with that.

I read one of my favorite books today going to work, and coming back from work, and I am happy with that.

My wife is working next to me, and we are talking while she works and I write.

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We are watching a documentary about the meaning of life while we do this. I don’t know what the meaning of life is. 42? I dunno. I’m 44. I think if it’s a number it’s 44 until the day I turn 45, then it becomes 45. My wife disagrees. Because she is 42.

The real meaning of life? It”s different for everyone. There is no universal answer to that question. My answer would not be your answer. Is the meaning of life to be happy? If it is for you, then it is. If not, then not. For me, I have only an inkling of an answer, because I don’t really understand the question, except maybe peripherally.

What does it mean “What is the meaning of life?” Does it even need a meaning? You drink coffee, work, worship, shop, fuck, fart, do a billion other things. Why would one action(worship, work) or one thing (God, sex, anything else) be the meaning of life when there are so many things that make up that life? Why would there be a need to frame that existence with meaning?

Ask a bull with a yoke on it’s neck what life means. Ask a horse running a race with a human on it’s back what life means. Ask a man fighting for his life what life means. Life’s meaning depends on how your life is going and where you are and how you experience it, and the life you’ve lived since you were a child.

Life is not something to be pondered. Life is something to be lived, experienced. Viscerally. Enjoyed if it can be enjoyed. Struggle through if you must, fight if the need arises, but the meaning, like life itself, cannot be anything but a personal experience.

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Google glasses. Not glasses that can get any information from anywhere on the internet, just Google branded ones.

Cispa.

Instagram. A complete and utter waste of time. I am convinced that Mark Zuckerberg bought the company because he’s friends with the guy who ran it. No other way to explain buying an app for a billion dollars when it isn’t worth a tenth of that.

Fear of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Patent news.

Quality goal-tending in Pittsburgh.

Movies about Steve Jobs. Who would willingly watch it? Where’s the excitement? Sounds about as much fun as watching grass grow.

Calling it Obamacare. It’s called the patient protection and affordable care act.

More U.N. observers in Syria. Those poor people need guns and ammunition, not people there to watch them die. They won’t listen to the U.N. If they were going to do that, they’d have done it by now.

President Romney.

Candidate Romney.

Mitt Romney.

Anyone from Bain Capital in any kind of spotlight without handcuffs, leg irons and prison orange on.

Prostitutes paid with our taxpayer dollars. I gotta ask the 11 SS agents who got busted for this stupid crap a one word question. Really?

The entire Summit of the Americas. They could have gotten much done, but didn’t do a damn thing. And the entire thing fell apart because of the United States. Apparently the United States, being the largest economic and military power on earth somehow gets to dictate how the entire region should work. That and Argentina thinks that the Falkland Islands are the property of Argentina. Thought that battle was fought in the 1980’s. Thought the Brits handled that pretty effectively, as effective as any invading army can.

The Vancouver Canucks. Why does Vancouver need a hockey team again? Quebec needs an NHL team. Nova Scotia needs an NHL team. Vancouver? Not so much. Juneau would be a better home for Hockey than Vancouver. Hell, Dubai would be a better home for the NHL than Vancouver.

Companies and local governments firing people in great heaps and gobs. 10,000 fired by SONY? 4,000 fired by the Detroit Public Schools? Makes no damned sense. In March 1,293 companies laid off over 119,000 workers. And curiously, in many respects these numbers are actually low. Still, short term profits are apparently more important than the lives of people.

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Pic of the day: Knight , The Devil and Death, by Albrecht Durer

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Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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Pic of the day: This child destroyed an entire subway line. Isn’t he the cutest lil’ terrorist? His parents should be proud!

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In school they told me “Practice makes perfect.” And then they told me “Nobody’s perfect,” so then I stopped practicing.

Steven Wright

“One thing leads to another”? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.

George Carlin

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Coolest thing ever. Head over to google maps and check out the happy 8 bit NES style maps that are there for April fools day. Just click on maps on the google main page and then look for the word “quest” in the upper right hand corner of the page. Click and enjoy! For added fun click on the little guy on top of the slider and place him somewhere on the map. 8 bit love is pretty, and just a little pixelated.

More fun than searching google for “Do A Barrel Roll.”

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I am sitting bathed in far too much light listening to someone commentating on a motorcycle race somewhere in Japan. I know this because the man is speaking in Japanese. Why? Beats me. My wife has been flipping through channels on Ustream pretty much at random. After watching two guys on horses moshing with a cow, we now have a Japanese Motorcycle race. Flip the channel and there is… Japanese people shooting darts! At least there’s no commentary. Or Rick Santorum.

Looking forwards to the cats and the penguins, at least they don’t yell indecipherably. The Penguins sound like tiny elephants and the cats sleep at each other when they aren’t jumping on one another.

But I digress.

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Things to do on April Fools day: (note: don’t do any crazy shit and then blame me. If your an asshole, it’s your fault, not mine.)

Go to the Syrian embassy, light a bag of dog-shit on fire, ring the doorbell, and run! Classic mayhem!

If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words ‘O windy star blown sideways up the sky!’ True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga

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It is 1055 days since the last time I had a job

that gave me health benefits;

My wife has gone uncovered since that day

and has been sick several times.

It makes my skin crawl to think something

could happen to her and I would have to worry

about not being able to pay

and she could die because of a lack of money.

I would like to think that someone will pay

for this,

but that someone is most definitely us.

Humans are finite machines, people with money

and power do not think of them as anything but

money conduits for the wealthy owners of

We the people.

And we go through 1055 days of worry, 1055

and counting, because they are more concerned with cash

than life

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Pic of the day: Suprematist Composition, by Kazimir Malevich

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I have no idea what possessed me to do this today, just some crap rolling around my head, I decided to let it out. Proof positive that that isn’t always a good idea. I’m OK with it though. Doesn’t hurt anyone, and it’s frankly pretty easy to write like that.

Good stuff for when there are no good ideas bouncing around my cranium. 🙂

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My heart is beating hard and fast as I type this. I am in the middle of doing exercise and am taking the time between sets to write a little here and a little there.

After the first set of today’s exercise, which is chin-ups, I found I was hungry (initially typed decided instead of found, still dunno why.) Talk about bad timing. As it is getting late for me, and I have only a little while to exercise and do everything I want to do, including write this, I say the hell with it and eat. That was perhaps the fastest bowl of cereal I have ever eaten.

It’s a little bit after 10 pm, and I am doing sets of 10 chin-ups. I’ve done five sets so far, in about 10 minutes. I’m not trying to set records either with the amount of chin-ups I do, or the amount of time I do them in. Wife is giggling at me, saying this is hella multi-tasking, writing and exercising at the same time. I tell her that’s what I’m writing about. She giggles again.

It is very difficult to type right after doing chin-ups. My fingers don’t want to move the way I am asking them to. Typos a plenty. I miss keys, type the wrong thing, type in extra letters not meaning to… at a far greater rate than normal. The word late isn’t supposed to have a semi colon in it, and the word wrong does not have an I in it, but you would not have known that I knew that, looking over my shoulder as I was typing just a moment ago.

60.

I spent the time before I started doing the exercise and the eating writing more stuff in the long form running story I’m writing on the “Story of the month” page. I’m up to 6,000 words. I haven’t read it. It is probably crap, but it’s my crap and I like it.

I think.

70.

After my 7th set, I am wondering if I’ll have it in me to do 3 more sets. Not as in actual capacity, 100 chin-ups is not that hard to do over time, it’s wanting to do it, and within forty-five minutes of going to bed.

Oh hell, now I have to. Can’t sit here and say I can do 100 chin-ups after doing 70, without doing the other 30, even with my stomach muscles bothering me. I did something to them. Whenever I cough, I double over in pain, and I can feel them, feel the soreness in them when I start running.

80.

Typing is hard. Especially when you beat your fingers by doing chin-ups right before typing. More properly put, chin-ups + typing = exercise in futility. 🙂

I’ve been reading books on putting together a novel, how to work out characters, how to focus on creating them properly. It sounds a hair more complex than I had initially thought, though doable. Complexity won’t stop me from writing a book, or just much longer form stuff than I write here. And I am not sure if I want to write fiction or non-fiction. I could do both. My grandfather’s story sounds fascinating, and I could do that.

90.

I could try for 120. But I won’t. I think.

100.

That feels good. Almost as good as getting the run story to 10,000 words will feel. I honestly wonder how long I can make it last. Like I said, I’m 6k words in, but what I didn’t say is that I have described less than half of the 6 miles run that I am writing about.

Having fun with it, even if it sucks, even if typing is hard.

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That’s it from here, America. G’night.

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I got into an argument on twitter about occupy wall street. It was a silly argument, truth be told. The person I was arguing with was saying that… let’s see if I can remember the charges here… the protestors are money-grubbing dirt-bag hippies who want a handout from wall street. Another curious claim was that protest leaders put out some crap about Radiohead or some such band playing the protest to get people there, or some such.

Some stupid bullshit like that, not the persons words exactly, but it is what the person meant.

A number of the protestors are college kids/hippie types, true, but there are a lot of other protestors as well. Out of work middle aged men and women, union workers out to support the protestors. Some have jobs, some don’t. In this economy to be out of work doesn’t have a stigma attached to it, it means the job you had screwed you in some way, shape, or form at some point.

Like it did me. I have been bouncing between jobs for the last few years because of one particularly nasty bastard.

I technically have 3 jobs right now (you’d never know it the way I rant, but that’s because they haven’t called me in to work in far too long, SUCKS not working full time) even though I have not worked any of them in a while. Told the guy I was arguing with that I was working today. The argument, like I said was a bit silly.

Clearly I wasn’t working, but then again he said he was working as well, and all he was doing was tweeting with me, and others, mocking the occupy wall street movement. Not gonna let some smart ass punk feed me shit, but he got me to be stupid while being an idiot himself. Dammit.

He was hammering the right wing talking points, yakking about these people like they were meat instead of people. About how they simply have no clue, when it was abundantly clear that he didn’t have a clue about why they were there. He talked like the protestors are there because the rich are rich and they aren’t, and that they want a piece of the pie for free.

Clearly untrue.

The protestors are there because the Banksters (as they are called) stole our future. A lot of people need work, millions of people need work and these “Job creators”, despite holding billions back in offshore accounts (and I can get specific if you need me to,) are holding back money and refuse to hire. THEY are responsible for the lackluster economy more than anyone. And that is with the tax rates as low as they are (ask GE or Exxon about how high the tax rates are) and have been for the past decade.

We gave them bailouts. They haven’t done anything productive with them. The Fed printed trillions for them, to save them. And STILL they sit on the money like they have nothing, and they hold back the economy for their own wants and desires.

We’ve been lied to, shit on and fucked with about this crap for a dogs age, and frankly we’re sick of it.

And asshat defended them, like they’ve done something good for America, when they’ve been screwing us for years.

And the only people I heard that Radiohead crap from was from the occupy wall street haters, never once heard a member of the protest say word one about Radiohead. Not one.

Still… I feel a bit dumb, as I should, about being punked into stating a clear non truth, by some douche-bag who goaded me into a fight. Dammit.